Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives

Marginalization in Urban China is a consequence of the processes that constrain the disadvantaged from making a claim to citizenship. This book provides insights into marginalization in Chinese cities, and enriched social inequality research by creating comparative perspectives on property right changes, rural to urban migration, the role of the state and welfare restructuring. It covers a wide range of topics such as social inequality and the polarization debates, neoliberalism and the urban poor, urbanization, citizenship and property rights, residential segregation, and re-employment training. The contributors draw on their extensive experiences in urban inequality research to highlight that marginalization in urban China is related to constrained rights rather than deserted `outcasts'. They base their analyses on up-to-date empirical materials from in-depth interviews, quantitative social surveys, and detailed population census data, which have not been disclosed on such a detailed geographical scale before.

Timothy M. Shaw, Professor and Director, Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago.
Fulong Wu is Professor of East Asian Planning and Development and the Director of the Urban China Research Centre at the School of City and Regional Planning of Cardiff University, UK. His research interests includes China's urban poverty, governance and transformation. His most recent book is China's Urban Poverty.
Chris Webster is Professor of Urban Planning and Development and Head of the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK. He is an honorary Professor at Hong Kong University, and has published numerous scholarly papers and books in his fields of expertise.